I wish more people could see this. I'll do my best to show this to friends and family

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Please do! 💚

@jrgenchristensen7240

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you MrNeutross, and thank you too Kurtis. It lightens my heart to see people wanting to do something about this. I will definitely talk more with people about climate change.

@Sivah_Akash

4 жыл бұрын

But it's important to understand why the other person is denying if they do that. Since if we keep on trying to share facts, they will only deny things more since we are affecting their world view.

@jrgenchristensen7240

4 жыл бұрын

You make a good point Sivah. I think trying without thinking about the approach is on average better than doing nothing, but reading up on what's effective and trying is much better. i'll have a look at the "motivational interview" conversation teqneeq, and if you have any recommendations, I would appreciate beeing told about them.

@difflocktwo

4 жыл бұрын

@@jrgenchristensen7240 Basically you need to be a billionaire you can worry about anything other yourself and paying your bills. Before that happens no one is going to care about anyone else.

It blows my mind that we only seem to act on clear and present dangers once people start dying. I'm counting myself in this group.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Please Note: People are now dying. In forest fires in California, in Australia, people are dying. In floods in Iran, people are dying. In smog-choked India, people are dying.

@aenorist2431

4 жыл бұрын

It's about timeframe and immediacy. We react only when people are dying quickly, indiscriminately, directly around us and we see a clear causation. Most climate victims are either far away, die slowly (smog) or of things we can (wrongly) dissociate from cc. "We always had hurricanes" (ignore frequency and severity). Problem is we are still mostly monkeys, evolved to care about very immediate dangers. Thinking in decades is a fluke, caring about a problem that takes 8 days to kill you is what we are hardwired to do.

@alialmans

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience but in most places people are not dying in noticible ways, so in most places no action is taken.

@mailgaga5275

4 жыл бұрын

@@aenorist2431 This. And since our brain will surely not evolve into a "better" tool in the next decades I'd say it's rather possible that homo sapiens is going down the drain. We should still fight global warming at least on a personal level though because it's the right thing.

@MDHDH-iy7nm

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience get back to me when the rich are dying. then we'll talkskies.

Our actions are always "Reactive", while they need to be "Proactive"...

@help-im

4 жыл бұрын

even if we acted now on climate change it would be reactive, but it seems like we won't react at all

@olgierdvoneverec4135

4 жыл бұрын

Well we are all a bit late on that "reaction" to climate change.

I completely agree with your frustration; I feel so stuck that I can't seem to do anything about this global issue!

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, I see you. Every time you talk about climate change with someone, you are helping. Every time you share a link about climate, you are helping. If you can vote for climate, you are helping. We're all in this together. We can do this. 💚

@topsecret1837

4 жыл бұрын

Block Builder It’s funny the power of not doing. That can be exactly what you need to do. Perhaps not going out in our cars and riding bikes instead helps the climate every bit.

@topsecret1837

4 жыл бұрын

Kurtis Baute In our highly social world the one thing we can do physically which improves our climate is to, physically, not do anything which can substantially affect our climate. It would be quite extreme to say “Stop breathing so less CO2 is emitted”, so there’s always a limit as to how far anyone can do nothing, so getting on the internet and talking is something nice.

@gamergrill9629

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience Yes, that's a good way of looking at it. Thanks for the response! :)

One of the most frustrating things for me is when climate "Skeptics" say the climate has always changed it goes up and down it's just natural and of course it has, but they fail to realise the people who discovered that and research past climate change, are the same scientists who are telling you that the climate change happening now is caused by humans.

@Alex-cw3rz

4 жыл бұрын

Another one is it used to be global warming now it's climate change or Visa versa, when in reality both are still used as they mean different things. Global Warming refers to the current situation. Whereas Climate change is not a specific change in the climate but is focus on all of the past and present changes in climate. Also that people don't know that climate change is in the discipline of Geography, so will often gets random scientist from physics for example and let them horribly explain or fail to explain any of the processes, due to it not being there subject. And then dismissing geographers because that doesn't sound right when talking about climate change.

@223Drone

4 жыл бұрын

@pneumatictrousers That's factually wrong though. The overwhelming majority of scientists agree human activity is causing climate change. Deniers like you refuse to listen to scientists to begin with.

@clockworkkirlia7475

4 жыл бұрын

​@@Alex-cw3rz Minor point: Climate change is absolutely geo-science as you say, but the front lines are filled with biologists. Entomologists, marine biologists, botanists, ecologists... They are *grieving* right now. They're seeing beloved organisms that they have worked with and cared for and *loved* die off, constantly. But they will stop grieving. They will get on the fucking warpath. First step: Fire. To borrow an xkcd joke... "Your car's temperature has changed before." I'm... mostly kidding.

One of the depressing parts about Covid is how people can't wait for "things to go back to normal" like as if it was something that came from nowhere and won't happen again and again. This was so painful to watch that I had to pause several times, but thank you for the honesty. I appreciate your videos very much. I will share this as much as I can.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Yeah, as David Wallace Wells put it in The Uninhabitable Earth: “[we’re now in the] end of normal; never normal again.”

As a zoomer, I feel like I’ve been born into a doomed world.

Crazy how a video this important only has 5.9k views in 3 hours. I’ll do my best to share and spread the word because change is literally the MOST essential variable in creating a solution.

What I find even more concerning is that people want to go back to normal as soon as possible. We need to have a drastic mindset shift to cope with the effects of climate change as a society.

4:55 "armed conflict should increase by around 10 to 20 percent" sounds doable..

@crashfan11

4 жыл бұрын

When food is scarce and economy's fall we get desperate it's not exactly a choice at some point

@RustyWalker

4 жыл бұрын

@@crashfan11 Water too. If the glaciers in the Himalayas continue to retreat, that's a lot of people who lose water security.

4 months later and this video is starting to die. PLEASE, IF YOU ARE READING THIS, THEN SHARE THIS VIDEO!!! IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO HELP.

Frustration is practically the only emotion I’ve felt over quarantine

The thing that's worries me is what "they that died with the virus, not because of the virus" is going to look like

My dad is a research scientist (fish). I know from growing up speaking to his fellow scientists that they alway er on the side of caution. Their projections are always on the conservative side. So when I hear climate scientists speak, if they saying things are bad, then you know it's really really bad.

"There is No War in Ba Sing Se"

@zc119

4 жыл бұрын

MömpfLP great reference. It really reflects the current moment. Avatar is really long lasting

@persephone4299

4 жыл бұрын

@@zc119 it seriously really is though haha.

I think a real problem is that in movies about climate change they always make it seem either like a brush off we’ll manage or something that will kill us all. That’s problematic as people expect to see something cataclysmic and then deny it when it doesn’t.

This video is so important! I'll make Portuguese captions so all of my friends can have access to it

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Just approved the subtitles, thank you so much for doing that!!

* nods aggressively *

The denial about the climate of earth noticeably changing (lighting the frickin Australia on fire) scares me, and shows how much dumbness has taken over humanity

I too study environmental science, and when trying to talk to people about it I'm met with blank stares or eye rolls. This video pretty much summed up my frustration, I'll be sharing it.

I exactly feel this way! When I asked my mom about her fears growing up, she didn't fear about the future. For me it is our changing climate and the amount of people and animals that will die because of greed and further destruction of our earth. I don't want to say that I feel hopeless. I do have hope but am still grieving what has already been lost. Thanks for the book recommendation, Kurtis :)

What am I as an individual supposed to do (17 y/o)? Should this influence my career choice? Should I not have hobbies or possessions which somehow contribute to the problem? There are many things I wanna do in life which may increase carbon emmisions (such as travelling). I feel like I can't contribute *enough* without making serious sacrifices in my life. (I could go on but I think I'll stop now) What advice would you give?

@gkcadadr

4 жыл бұрын

It's a game of balance imho. We will always have a carbon footprint. It'll take a couple technological and social leaps to zero it out. In the mean time best individuals can es to educate people around you (being careful to not alienate them), prefer recyclables, avoid overconsumption, and travel responsibly. For that last one, one may avoid usual destinations in order to not contribute to overtourism, prefer trains, and avoid private cars (which kill us everywhere in time and space, use public transit & eco vehicles like bicycles), and travel less. We want to ideally stop all emissions, but we don't want to go back to 1700s in the process. So we'll need to hit a balance somewhere.

@banksarenotyourfriends

4 жыл бұрын

Firstly, you can't help that you live under a system that almost forces you to use more than your share of Carbon, so realise that although it would be good for you to reduce your personal Carbon Footprint, it's system change that we truly need, at the state level. That said, the 2 biggest things we can do as individuals is limit our red meat consumption, and limit our flights on jet aircraft - but really more than anything else we need to vote for people that will deliver massive systemic changes, and not just people that promise to tweak the edges of the old system while we keep sleepwalking towards catastrophe. Until the majority of the population in a country actually understands how dire the situation actually is, we won't get governments that will act at the speed we need them to, so the other really useful thing you can do as an individual is to raise the alarm amongst your friends and family, and help them understand how bad it actually is, so that they will vote for leaders that take Climate Change seriously.

@clockworkkirlia7475

4 жыл бұрын

It shouldn't be us. It shouldn't be our generation. We *shouldn't* have to make those sacrifices. Nobody would have had to if they'd listened the first time, or the second, or the third... We've been let down. Unfortunately, we *do* have to make those sacrifices. That's our lot, and we *can* do it, and still live awesome lives. We're more resilient than they were. We're more determined. We know it won't go away; we've grown up with it not going away. We get to be the ones to make our world as good as it's gonna be. If you want to travel, that's great, there are good and bad ways to do that, but you could also try to *do* something with that travel. You could find quirky low-carbon ways to get about and use that attention to spread a message, as one example. There are good and bad hobbies but I'd bet that you could find a way to do most of the bad ones in a more climate-friendly manner anyway. Another thing to do is cut down on meat if you can. One option might be to focus on fish instead of meat; it's generally better for you and much better for the environment, though veggies are still better so it's a good time to get healthy too. Eating local helps too, so the food industry isn't being paid as much to haul food long-distance; in winter, that might actually mean that preserved meat's better than trying to go full-veggie, if you're from northern climes. Eating seasonally can be absolutely delicious; if you eat what's in season, it's *actually* fresh. You won't change the world on your own, but if our generation makes a little bit of effort *as a whole,* we can do a lot of good. The more you can do, the better, but you don't have to do *everything.*. Campaigning also helps. We're not old enough to make direct changes to policy but we can sure as hell make our voices heard while the geezers are squabbling over loose change, make it real hard to ignore us. I've been chronically ill for a while so I can't physically campaign right now, but I'm going to be out there as soon as I can. Post-Covid, of course. We *can* do this... but hopefully we won't have to. Hopefully it'll be fixed before we have to really play the horrible catcup game. We just need to be prepared for that not happening because, right now, it *isn't.* Also, search with Ecosia! Its engine isn't as good as Google's but there's no actual good reason not to plant a tree with every search (unless you've got one of those other charity search thingies).

@troydikkeboktoren1half232

4 жыл бұрын

Just go!

@magicthegatherer6903

4 жыл бұрын

Asbjørn Birkelund the vast majority of emissions come from mega corporations.

Also people are in denial about how big of an impact animal ag has on climate change. We all have our role to play!

Thank you for your emotional honesty Kurtis ❤️. When we just state the facts without feeling them, we don't communicate.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Adam. 💚

You are awesome

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

💚

How good to see an honest appraisal of the situation we find ourselves in. I've been an environmentalist since the 1980s and during the 90s was going on about 'sustainable development' and in the nougthies was banging on about carbon rationing, but over the last decade it has become increasingly clear we are sprinting towards the edge of a cliff - to a certain huge crash, and the inevitable death of billions, maybe everyone. I've been shouting the 'apply brakes' message, most recently via XR, which gave me a modicum of hope as it became a hugely popular movement. But, Covid19 notwithstanding, we are still speeding towards that cliff, and no amount of braking will stop us going over. The solution is to work through the fear and grief and arrive at acceptance. Once there, live life fully, doing as much as you can to preserve the environment for whatever species survive us, helping others especially those less privileged than ourselves, and sharing as much love and kindness as possible. Do these and you should be happy, and fulfilled knowing you're doing what you can.

You don't need to be sorry that this video was "depressing". Your aim here is not to entertain people, it is to tell the facts. And that's why we clicked on the video.

I came to the same realization... initial shock about the complacency and denial of societies (especially those in power) when faced with overwhelming scientific and social evidence of the risk of the pandemic and later, thinking about how this relates to the denial of climate change. After this is over, there needs to be a push towards very serious self-reflection about how society is increasingly dismissing science and how this is, with no exaggeration, a threat to our civilization itself which hangs on the edge of a razor at all times.

It’s been interesting to me during this pandemic that you can actually see the fossil fuel industry in a state of panic when they realize that the bottom has fallen out on crude oil and gas prices. I think what’s happening currently is a stark realization that if most humans discover that thing can be done sustainably, there will be a tremendous push for us to do so.

How you feel now and how you look at your past selfs plane travels is how doctors look back at the dark ages. We got out of it by working together and sharing.

oh holy algorythm please spread this video

A major part of how you can help is by translating content like Kurtis into your native language and/or languages you are proficient with! Translated subtitles are a relatively low effort way of exponentiating the effect that a single video like this can have. (I just did my first community translation / correction just because of this video, Kurtis seems to be a great human being)

To tell people that climate change is real, we first have to teach flat earthers that the earth is round to tell people that the earth is round, we first have to teach people to believe in science and I don't know how to make people trust science

okay so i was talking to some friends over the weekend and we were all saying how if people would just shut up and do something, like whats happening with corona, then we could fix climate change. BUT NOBODY IS DOING THAT!!!!!!!!! AHRRGGHR ITS SO absolutely infuriating.

@mericaman1269

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, if half the world died it would all be better. If we cut all carbon emissions then probably billions would have to die. So how about we all go buy electric cars so we don’t emit carbon. NO. Electric cars do cause carbon emissions but people buy them because they make themselves feel good because they don’t think they emit carbon. Get woke

I fully agree with the general sentiment of this piece, and thanks for doing it. I just have a nugget of positivity that can help here. Climate change is absolutely not permanent. We can take CO2 out of our atmosphere in several ways. Firstly there is the natural way of regrowing forests. Sure, trees are only a carbon sink in the sense that when they decay after dying, they release the CO2 back into the atmosphere, but my house is built out of wood, as nearly everyone's house is. That wood will not decay anytime soon as it is protected from water and the elements by the exterior surface of my house. If we adopt electric engines in the forestry business, and electric engines in the transportation sector transporting the lumber, and electric engines in the machines used to construct houses, and we get our grid greener to power these electric engines with green electricity, the process of building things out of wood becomes a way of essentially permanently (or, more accurately, several hundred years) sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. Us humans are real, real good at building stuff. In the same vein, industrial scale reforestation of deserts is totally possible. Desalination plants and pumps can send water into irrigation systems which provide water to the trees in the desert until the desert becomes a self sustaining forest capable of retaining their own water. These solutions are a bit far off, and enormously costly, but compared to the cost of dealing with climate change, they are very cheap. However, I think the best solution right now isn't very greed looking on the outside. We already have technology for large scale industrial plants which take CO2 out of the air. The only problem right now is they are not financially viable. They take tons of money to operate and don't produce any products to be sold, so right now they are economically non-starters. These plants, already, without much financial investment, are VASTLY superior at removing CO2 from the atmosphere compared to trees. Once the CO2 is harvested, it needs to be pumped deep underground, where the CO2 initially came from. When these systems becomes optimized with further development and deployment, a single plant will be able to permanently store more CO2 per day than a city could produce. So we just build one in every city around the world. Are these solutions difficult? Sure. It is certainly much harder to take CO2 out of the atmosphere than it is to put it up there, but the idea you have that once we put CO2 out there, we can't get it back is wrong. We can today. We are not stuck with our level of the greenhouse effect for ever.

@aenorist2431

4 жыл бұрын

Many good points. Sidenote though, grassland is far more permanent and better at absorption than forest of managed correctly, and most of the desertification is on Savannah. Reference Allan Savory and planned grazing for the details.

@benjaminbeck6378

4 жыл бұрын

jweezy2045 Thank you for your message.Personally I agree with you and as one person stated solving climate change is a three pronged attack which is Mitigation,Adaptation and Finally Restoring the Climate.It is these technological advancements that make me hopeful for the future of our climate as well as our living conditions.We have the power to not just mitigate Climate Change But to reverse it we just need to find ways and give ourselves the willpower to work for a better future.The points this guy also made is exactly why I’m going to be an activist once this Pandemic is over.

@jweezy101491

4 жыл бұрын

Ae Norist I was talking about planting forests as a way to combat deforestation. Deforestation? Can be reversed by planting forests. Desertification of savannah? Can be reversed by planting grassland. Greenhouse effect? Can be reversed by pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere. You name a negative effect of global warming, and I can name a potential industrial scale solution to solve that problem.

Thank you for keeping us in perspective Kurtis

It's not a protectorment. It's a government. Our government always finds a way to weasel out of helping it's people. It's sick.

Very big eye opener for a lot of people. thanks for this!

Two not well know tips I've picked along the way: Make sure when you buy sunscreen, it is Reef-safe, usually should say 'Reef-safe' on the package (source: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaicts-KeNDbipM.html) When recycling a plastic bottle (reusable bottles are preferable), cut the little circular piece of plastic below the bottlecap, I've heard if it ends up in the ocean, there are some fish who can get stuck in them. (source: one of my former teachers, don't know from where she learnt this, I haven't made further research about it)

I hope the children of the future will see videos like this and know that there are good people out there who genuinely wanted to help. Thank you for trying to bring attention to this Kurtis. I don't mean to be defeatist but even if things get worse forever all we can do is our best, and you're inspiring people to do that.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

I hope that the parents of the children of the future don't leave it up to them. I hope everyone alive today, especially older and richer people (who have emitted more than any other demographic), takes responsibility, and takes action.

@stoopidsecondchannel

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience Absolutely, well said

Thank you for being the person to do this. It makes me so happy to see someone who sees how it really is instead of putting on a pair of rose colored glasses and saying "it's gunna be okay" Love you Kurtis thank you for being the person you are

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's really hard to see the issue clearly, because everyone wants to wear the rose coloured glasses. I'm hoping we can make that change. Thank You! 💚

Just commenting in the hopes the algorithms shows this to more people

As difficult as this is to hear, I (and many other people) need to hear it. Thank you.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Now, lets get to work.

Thanks for the video. I think about this way too much for my own good (mental health-wise). People don't listen and I am frequently anxious about it, but can't do much except talking

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Please don't stop talking about it. Please take care of yourself (I know first hand this can be hard). And don't forget that things like voting, helping green politicans campaign, and protesting are all things that can help!

I must show this to the entire internet... THEY MUST KNOW

I lived a few hundred meters away from a highway for 12 years. The other night, while it was raining, I saw mist here for the first time. Apparently there are owls here, too. I hate the amount of plastic my household uses, too.

I'm REALLY glad you made this video cause I talked about this a couple of weeks ago with some of my friends and the response I got was extremely upsetting. They argued that this is different and bringing this up in a moment like this is taking advantage of a crises to "prove a point", being opportunist or whatever. I felt really stupid making that comparison, it was SO frustrating, IM SO TIRED

Thank you for sharing this. I've thought about these things for a long time when I was in school and eventually felt so terrified that my mind passively blocked these thoughts and thanks to media, I almost forgot this was a very serious issue. You've reopened my eyes. Thank you very much. I'll read the book you suggested. I've always wanted to know about the details of the situation. I'll do my best to prevent such a future.

Battling against climate change is battling for a different economic system. In Brazil, where I'm born and live, we see a lot of businessman just worried with the economy. One of them said "the economy can't stop because 5k~7k will die of coronavirus".

I feel like people in power generally dont care because they are as a whole older and they know they will not be around when it becomes a huge problem.

It's just so frustrating that it's basically the end and no one cares

im not enjoying the fact that you're wrong about me being in denial about climate change, cause I've been out of hope for a while

What do you think about the threat of antibiotic resistance?

Here in The Netherlands we're all trying to work from home as much as possible due to the pandemic. Now what I hope is that people find this comfortable and work from home more and leave the car at home. I think that this might also make a huge difference.

Finally other people who get this! Thanks to Tom Scott for sending me.

We're hard wired and change is VERY difficult. Keep calm, keep your loved ones close and hug them ... often! Ask questions and listen but try not to play " I'm right and you're wrong " .. there are no winners down that road. Be the best person you can be and vote for those that can make a change. Everything else is just noise.

I'm really glad someone has hope, I have none left.

I wish this had a chance to get to the trending page.

I really appreciate your efforts in spreading education and positive inspirational messages. We really need more influencers like you. Thank you for uploading this. I think many of us on the internet need to see more videos like this. Stay safe and positive :')

Hi Kurtis, I just wanted to point out your continued use of future tense about climate change despite that it's costing 100's of thousands or possibly millions of lives every year RIGHT NOW. It's obviously important to highlight that this is a threat that will continue to grow exponentially in the future, but I think these subtle wording differences are important to include in the conversation the immediate impacts which are usually "less deniable" and more actionable. Love your work, don't lose hope!

Great video! I would suggest taking "COVID19" out of your description though. Its common that videos featuring that direct reference are getting hidden/less revenue than those without. Love ya Kurtis! Want to make sure you get the coverage needed.

UBI still leaves the market ultimately in charge of economic allocation. Basic necessities like water, food, electricity, healthcare, and housing should be guaranteed and outside of the realm of currency.

Why is nuclear power not an option for decreasing carbon emissions? Modern nuclear technology allows for very little toxic bi-products and nuclear meltdowns are near impossible.

@felixmervamee7834

4 жыл бұрын

It is an option, I think, but it is not well-known. It is associated with technology and industry, so people have the intuition that it has a high carbon footprint and is part of the problem. Add to that the required investments, the fact people confuse danger and risk of accidents, as well as the inherent problems of nuclear waste and security that are left to solve, and it looks like a big pile of yikes despite the huge contribution it could make to transition to better energy generation. On the bright side, with renewable energy often being intermittent, *not* leaning on nuclear fission means there's only one viable path left to work on for people: consuming less energy.

@alcom4112

4 жыл бұрын

Nuclear is generally has the highest cost to build, operate and maintain, even when waste materials can be recycled. Plant type Total system LCOE (2025) Ultra-supercritical coal 76.44 Combined cycle 38.07 Combustion turbine 66.62 Advanced nuclear 81.65 Geothermal 37.47 Biomass 94.83 Wind, onshore 39.95 Wind, offshore 122.25 Solar photovoltaic3 35.74 Hydroelectric 52.79 www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf

@Max-rz4jt

4 жыл бұрын

It's main problem is the cost - initial investment is several billion dollars, and then fuel costs come after that. Renewables are just so much more cost effective. Nuclear can obviously provide much more base load power constantly than a solar grid but it isn't cost effective.

@tuvei

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it could be one step on the way and a part of a solution to reduce emissions. But nuclear technology is in no step of the process a ecosystem friendly or circular thinking industry. Long term storage is a nightmare. To me an equal option would be to lower our energy consumption so that we don't even need that much energy. Insolate buildings better, and travel a little less. Like, live within some sort of ecosystem budget.

Recently when I have been talking with people about climate change they haven't been denying that climate change will happen, but instead are taking a nihilistic approach by saying something along the lines of, "Why change the worlds mind when there are countries who won't even attempt to fix themselves. If they won't then it doesn't matter if the majority of the world changes, but a handful of countries don't then we are already doomed as a species." So I wonder how many more people out there also are feeling that we have already lost the battle and have gave up.

Yesterday I heard the audiobook of the uninhabitable earth, after that I saw an interview with neil degrasse tyson where he said "climate change won't make earth uninhabitable, climate change will make earth a living hell" That audiobook really made me jump from "yeah climate change is a problem polar bears will die" to truly understanding the magnitude of the problem, I'm going to make suee to share this knowledge with as many people as I can

What can I personally do except the obvious things like not use my car as much, try to save energy in my house? Surely we should be putting pressure on the big companies as well as individual human behaviour.

Kurtis, please put links to your videos that explain what each of us us can and should be doing as individuals to help as much as we can. Recycling and changing our light bulbs is the drivel we mostly get from officials. I hope you are able to get outside regularly and get some fresh air, sunshine and exercise. Stay safe and healthy (and hopeful!) You are such an inspiration and source of informaion for so many.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Anne. I am working on a bigger project that will address what we can all do to make a difference to the system at large. Stay tuned. For now, please share this video, talk about climate whenever you can, and vote/protest for climate. Stay safe. I hope you're safe too.

I’ve been waiting for this since your Instagram post, and I’ll reiterate that I’m so grateful for your words and your honesty. The older I get, the more and more I’ve been thrown into situations where I have to face grief and absurdity, and it has made it easier to grasp just how huge and unwieldy these disasters are and just what it means for them to keep happening. I wish that we could grasp that urgency and chaos as a whole society, a whole world. I hate what this crisis has done to the Wet’suwet’en protests against the pipeline, and how quickly people’s focuses shifted to themselves and their ideals of “normalcy.” I have to hope, in some degree, that this current pandemic might wake people up a little to how much of a crisis we’re in. I don’t know where that hope comes from, but I have some hope. 💛 Thanks for your words, as always.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I applaud you sir. Its been 30 years of "we'll find more oil" instead of "let's get renewable" There have been wars over oil and even when the oil is out - it will haunt our climate for centuries or more. But don't listen to me, listen to pretty much every expert to dive into the subject.

I cannot express my level of frustration, anger, fear and anxiety about this issue. I try to talk about it, but I feel like the world is not listening, my loved ones are not listening, nobody is listening and most days I just feel like I should give up. Turn a blind eye to it all, go back to my life, but in all truth it makes me sick. Videos like these give me a push, and hope, that some will see it, that some will change with me. So thank you. (But also no, because now I'm super anxious😅)

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry to cause you anxiety. I hope you never give up. Sending love your way! I've decided that what matters to me, is that at the end of my life I can look back and say "I did what I could to halt climate change". As long as I tried my best, I'll be proud of myself, and I won't beat myself up over it.

@pumpkinomom4446

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience Thank you, I'll try my best to do that too.

I really really feel and hear you here. How did we let this happen in our own lifetimes? Someone else was going to sort it out...that was a common feeling and I guess that shows we had a niave ? faith in human nature. A natural mistake, but a dangerous one. Thank you for your words and for sharing the feelings and thoughts, as dire as they are.

I found your channel via the "This is your brain on stale air" on Tom Scott's channel. Your channel is amazing. The fact that this doesn't have more views is making me very upset. More people need to think about this. I shared this with friends and family and got the book.

I feel that the crux of the problem is that fast, aggressive and short-term out-competes anyone who is trying to be sustainable and gunning for the long-term. The people in power know this and so far no one has come up with a solution. Your country isn't going to last even 5 years if you take the route of voluntarily slashing the country's economy in half and imposing draconian limitations. The amount of CO2 per capita that needs to be get rid of is staggering and once people, companies and nations try it they quickly realize what a hopeless task it is. The fact that some entities will not play fair and will go for the competitive edge is just the final killer of an already otherwise gargantuan problem.

It frustrates me to hear people think that the world is gonna be fine. That the economy is more important than our world. It gets to me so bad

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

I'm with you.

Thanks for showing us the reality. I've always tried to be realistically positive in the past, especially as a Bio student, and that's just not super possible right now, not about this. We all have to do our bit.

Hello Kurtis, I'm a big fan of your content and your heartfelt approach to science. Your epic Foucault Pendulum live-action animation (over 24 hours long if I remember correctly) was a real mind blower. But can I share with you what a "climate change denier" thinks? For starters, your list of the dire consequences of climate change is very sobering. But what a skeptic like me looks at is the long *history* of similar dire predictions. I'm a man of science, and a pillar of science (especially a theory) is whether it can be used to make predictions, especially hard predictions. For example (because I debate with Flat Earth folks), the fact that we can predict with down-to-the-minute accuracy the timing and locations of total solar eclipses 25 years in the future is a pretty good indicator that the Heliocentric model is extremely accurate. But I've been studying the many-decades-long track record of "climate change" predictions and I haven't found a single one that's come true. Not one. Furthermore, they always seem to be "off" in the same direction: the prediction is always worse than the eventual reality. Which means there is a systematic bias in the guiding philosophies governing these predictions, many of which have as a central premise that increased CO2 drives negative climate consequences. Which remains unproven (there seems to be more noise than signal, in radio terms). Thus the models which have this as their starting point tend to get the future very wrong. I believe in being a good steward of the environment. But I also think that our societal decisions should be based on science which is able to accurately predict things. Sure, there are some crackpots on my side of the aisle, cheering "Screw the Environment!" but there are a great many level-headed minds who are studying global climate models very carefully, with a skeptical, scientific eye. I recommend you (just to play devil's advocate) treat this as a Debate Team exercise: what if you were to argue FOR Climate Skepticism? Who would you study? What research would you read? I can recommend Tony Heller here on KZread, plus Anthony Watts, Will Happer, and Bjorn Lomborg, just to name a few. Cheers!

This video has 25k views, and it was released 2 weeks ago. I am subscribed to you and I have notifications on. On top of that, this is more important than every other video I've watched this month. I'm not sure what that says about people.

Thank you for these helpful words . This will open many eyes and help the weight of the issue sink in.

Kurtis, I appreciate and I'm looking forward to the direction you are taking your channel. I hugely value your views. I hope you don't mind if I comment in a slightly challenging way at times. It's always with respect and meant to move the discussion forward towards positive conclusions and solutions. Your point about people rebooking their flights to Mexico - As a species we reject a narrowing of our opportunities and abilities to act. Throughout our entire existence as a species our horizons have continually opened. That is our nature. It is the condition that has shaped us throughout our evolution. If we are going to succeed in finding a sustainable path forward for humanity it will have to be in a way that does not feel like a constraint on our lives, on a narrowing of our sense of freedom in how we interact with the world. We can accept (for some with great difficulty) a quarantine for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic, because we know it is for a limited time and for the cause of enabling us to return to our normal lives afterward. But any climate change solution that involves a PERMANENT reduction of our sense of freedom will not happen. It simply will not be accepted. We will die off before we accept that. Perhaps we can accept short term constraints for an immediate improvement of some kind. But in the long term, we must find solutions that are in harmony with our nature. If they are not in harmony they will be rejected. And if we therefore find no solutions, then we will simply die off. When I say "we must etc" I do not mean that I think we "should". I'm looking at it from a Darwinian evolutionary perspective. As a species we are what we are and that is not going to change in just a generation or two. Evolution does not work that way. However our climate IS changing in just a generation and if we can't find a way to adapt to it, by altering our activities to mitigate the change, we will not survive the change. However any alteration to our activities will only be accepted by the bulk of the population if it is in harmony with our nature, as we are today. This is why people struggle to recognize the harm of their own actions such as flying. If we simply tell people, "stay home", that solution will be rejected, even if it means the end of our species. So if we are going to succeed, we must find solutions that respect the freedoms that it is our nature constantly to seek.

I don’t want my future kids to suffer because of us... previous generations.

"human being - a species of organism that is capable of unpicking the deepest secrets of the heavens while at the same time pounding into extinction, for no purpose at all, a creature that never did us any harm and wasn’t even remotely capable of understanding what we were doing to it as we did it." Bill Bryson, Short History of Nearly Everything

This hurts so much and gives me anxiety. Yet I'm thankful for this video and reading all the comments has a soothing effect. Being in this together doesn't change the situation but the approach to it. We all can do our part and at least try. For the fear is to be felt so we can act upon it an change what so scares us. Denying may ease the pain but certainly not the problem.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for the anxiety, but I love this comment. Thanks for taking the time to write it. We can tackle this, together.

@malaika7172

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience thank you for your kind words and your time. We're all in this together. You don't have to feel sorry, for you are not responsible for the pain. If at all you helped to connect me with it [which in the end is a good thing] and I'm sure its the same for others who watched this video. All the best & thank you for being and sharing. 🌱🌻🌳

I'd love to read some of scientific articles you talked about, do you have sources for them?

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Most of the stats I refer to were from the book I reference (some of which are in this article here: nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html).

I'm in denial about climate change. About all of the things you were in denial about in college. But more than that, I'm in denial that there is nothing I can do to help.

I'm gonna write Italian subtitles as soon as possible, this is important. Everyone needs to see this

I love this video. I will surely be sharing this to everyone I know. It is insane what we are willing to do about covid-19, but not about climate change. We really need to be willing to lower our living standards.

Thank you for sharing this, such an important message, thanks for the reminder to keep focusing on reducing our impact on the planet.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

We need personal action, but also system change. VOTE FOR CLIMATE. Protest. Fight like your life depends on it, because it probably does.

Great video, glade to hear someone who really understood the issues we will have to face ! Thank you

Another thing people can learn from this pandemic related to climate, is how easy it is to be more minimalist. You didn't fly, you didn't eat in restaurants, you didn't buy to much stuff. all in all it wasn't that bad. (the bad stuff are if we can't get out or go to work, though, if you're minimalist it's easier to be less dependent on work)

One can feel really helpless to see the solution to the problem, but no way to implement it.

Thank you for talking about this issue

Kurtis, I have a big question for you - is it possible to undo a permanent change to the planet by using carbon sequestration powered by renewables on a scale which is within our reach resources wise? Btw, there may be a way to remove methane from the atmosphere as well.

Kurtis you are amazing! And you almost touched the core reason for climate change inaction - our socioeconomic system. Hopefully it will be replaced by a much better model now that it's collapsing, but it's up to us to demand a better model.

Yeah, I'd love it if politicians cared about climate change, but at this rate, it feels like it's never going to happen.

I came across your channel from the video where you prove the earth is round. I stuck around and found out you are one awesome person. This video definitely shows how genuine you are to yourself and the society. I'm sure you have managed to start a conversation among people in the climate change issues. I will definitely pass on the message. Thank you for bringing this issue to the eyes of many in the light of current events.

The wakeup call we all need!

What angers me most is how things needed to start happening decades ago, and people are still in the "it's a hoax!1" and "how should we do this?" phases, and choosing options as if we can afford to not use some of them (nuclear). Progress needs to happen in every possible way and this is just not the time to argue about how much what costs or submit to irrational fears, etc. We need to deal with this as swiftly as possible, there's time for nitpicking later!

Would you be willing to make a video listing just a bunch of things we can do to reduce our carbon footprint and ideas on how to tell others about it? I will definitely be posting this video on social media cause I think it’s a great wake up call!! It would also be awesome if you made a video or you know of some that give list that I can show people.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

I'm working on it! Yes. Thank you

Dude that is some great work you've been doing with these videos. I know it's hard on the soul to dig deep into this subject. Try not to worry so much though, because chances are that humanity will wait for the water to boil before realizing the mess we are in, just like frogs being cooked in a pan. On the bright side, Earth will outlive and survive us, think about that! Man... people won't even recycle! WTF. Thanks for the video! Really enjoy your channel!

thank you, thank you, thank you for your work and informing us of this information